| 单词 | cover up |
| 释义 | cover up 1. phrasal verb B1 If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them. He fell asleep in the front room so I covered him up with a duvet. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb B2 If you cover up something that you do not want people to know about, you hide the truth about it. He suspects there's a conspiracy to cover up the crime. [VERB PARTICLE noun] They knew they had done something terribly wrong and lied to cover it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] How do we know you're not just covering up for your friend? [VERB PARTICLE + for] 3. See also cover-up See full dictionary entry for cover cover-up Word forms: cover-ups regional note: in AM, also use coverup countable noun A cover-up is an attempt to hide a crime or mistake. The general denied there'd been any cover-up. Synonyms: concealment, conspiracy, whitewash [informal], complicity Translations: Chinese: 掩盖对罪行、错误的 Japanese: もみ消し |
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